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DCP-LETT-3169

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 35
Summary:

Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3170

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles William Crocker
Date:
1 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.251)
Summary:

Suggests procedures for breeding experiments with hollyhocks. Recommends C. F. v. Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)]. [See also 3151]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
1 [June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 66
Summary:

Writes about dealings through John Lubbock regarding [a banking partnership for] WED.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3172

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
1 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 42 (EH 88206486)
Summary:

William Darwin can go to Southampton any time should the banking proposition come to anything. CD is sure he would work hard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4012

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
June 1861
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1786

From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 2th 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/29, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3174

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
2 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Asks for specimens of Aceras.

Mentions orchid species he has seen. Asks AGM to make observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
2 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.252)
Summary:

Discusses feral rabbits of Porto Santo. Arranges for care of rabbits while the Darwins visit Torquay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1114

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
2 June 1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.19-21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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Faraday4013

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Isabella Ann Herries
Date:
3 June 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 152/5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FL-0416

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-3175

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
4 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Sends queries concerning insect fertilisation of Epipactis palustris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 June [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60)
Summary:

AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].

Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.

Insect fertilisation of orchids.

Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
5 June [1861]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b)
Summary:

Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".

Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.

CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.

Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
6 [June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 69–70
Summary:

Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
6 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 3 (EH 88205928)
Summary:

Arrangements for a meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4015

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Louis Barreswil and Aimé Girard
Date:
6 June 1861
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4014

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
6 June 1861
Source of text:
Paul Heier
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1787

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 June 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/224; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1373-3a, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4017

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Enfield Roscoe
Date:
7 June 1861
Source of text:
RSC MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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